Greece never seems to disappoint when it comes to black metal. Archemoron presents us their fourth full length album, Flagellum I. Its fierce tones and aggressive bewitching melodies truly captures the listener in its magical trance. The first half of the album is an intense and chaotic fair. Aggressive blast beats and furious riffs that…
Two man act, Abigorum, brings us their second full length album, Vergessene Stille, a hypnotic and morbid album that lures you into its trance with blacken psychedelic riffs and a very slow and steady pace. This is a very unique album. While it incorporates a lot of styles from black metal, especially aesthetically with the…
Hailing from Brazil, Thy Rites presents us their fourth satanic offering, Nekrolatreia, a blacken thrash assault that takes after bands of the past like Sarcófago, Bathory, Hellhammer, and others of similar ilk. Its a solid and ferocious album that’ll keep you head banging and moshing around. The instrumentation is very solid, speedy d-beats, evil riffs,…
Hailing from Slovakia, Cresset presents us with their debut full length album Obscurantism. There’s a dark intensity with this album. After giving it many listens I can say this is a stunning first album for this band. Heavy, dark, and esoteric, it touches all the niches it needs while staying fresh and fusing different styles…
Hailing from Oakland, California, one mad-man presents us with his debut album, Dyspnea. A dense and morbid album with unrelenting instrumentation that hypnotizes you with its psychedelic and oppressive riffs. Just from the opening track Hypoesthesia, it creeps in for its hellish and chaotic assault, with intense blast beats, manic and truly chaotic vocals and…
Hailing from the jungles of Colombia, Gexerott presents us their third ritualistic offering to us in the form of Hallucinetic Violet Ignition, or otherwise known as Havigni, is a psychedelic and oppressive journey through a unique take on black metal take is both unique, yet traditional. Contained within are deeply esoteric and twisted vocals that…
Osiris – Meanders A Soul Much like Osirisin the ancient Egyptian myths, the band has been resurrected from the dead releasing their first full length album after their demo Storms from the East, an epic and theatrical album that tells a tale of the ancient Egyptian kingdom and its myths. Typically this type of metal…
Hailing from the dark French underground scene come La Ballade des Rats, spreading their plague with their third full length album Rattus Magnus, a melodic and chaotic raw black metal album bringing a medieval and aggressive sound to the fray. There are a couple of folk style songs on t his album, the first one…
Hailing from my own familial home-land, Costa Rica, come Troberoth with their second full length Fallen Angel. An ode to old school thrash and death metal. Showing their attitude and intensity through their music with aggressive riffs, demonic double bass, hellish vocals and a foreboding bass, combined together to create a blasphemous thrash assault. Like…
After a long seven years, Corr Mhóna have finally released their second full length record, Abhainn, a wonderfully beautiful album based around the mythological and spiritual importance of rivers. Something that is incredibly important in Irish-pagan spirituality as the rivers represent a deep duality of both life and destruction. These guys have captured this duality…